thanks will read into it.
And a historical aside - the American right these days seems very much driven by religion and guns but, as the above shows, it wasn’t always so with the former and it also wasn’t with the latter:
- How the NRA transformed from marksmen to lobbyists, Washington Post
- The NRA’s journey from marksmanship to political brinkmanship, The Conversation
karabiener@lemmy.world 1 year ago
karabiener@lemmy.world 1 year ago
i found this in a different article
But looking for an EXACT DATE (if we are talking about exponential increase in modern time) we find it to be Feb 1st 1953 as it is shown here: history.com/…/eisenhower-billy-graham-religion-in…
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If you are looking for an exact date it’s either politicians and religious leaders have been using each other for their own ends since the dawn of civilisation or, for this modern era of American politics, it is the Reagan/Moral Majority era that saw this situation go up a notch.